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2 years ago
in Will Jobs let Mac OS run on Intel boxes? on Mathew's comments
I'm still not sure why this is such a big deal. I used to run Windows 3.1 on OS2 back in 1998. Two operating systems, side by side. No rebooting, no emulation. It worked really well.
Okay, the only reason I did that was because we used OS2 at the time and some apps could on be run under Windows 3.1. But still, isn't "bootcamp" old news technology?
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Okay, the only reason I did that was because we used OS2 at the time and some apps could on be run under Windows 3.1. But still, isn't "bootcamp" old news technology?
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2 years ago
in No, I don’t know what Microsoft is up to on Scobleizer
Yep, a Novell/MSFT partnership indeed. Lots of people are wondering if the agreement violates section 7 of the GPL. SEE: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
IANAL, but I think that the patent protection & royalty payments are being associated with the SUPPORT contracts, not with the GPL’d code. So, everyone using SLES gets the same patent protection, none. And Novell pays Microsoft zero royalties on every copy of SLES distributed.
But, if you’re a paying customer of a SLES support contract, then your subscription contract gives you patent protection because Microsoft won’t sue you (and hey, you have to keep the support subscription current to keep this level of protection). Next, Novell would pay Microsoft for each support subscription sold, in return for the “I will not sue” covenant from Microsoft.
At the very end of this story at CRN about the deal: http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailya...
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s chief legal counsel, says:
"Every customer who purchases a subscription for SUSE Linux Enterprise will get not only service and support from Novell but a patent covenant from Microsoft"
Again, IANAL, but it sounds like you have to buy (and keep current) a subscription to get the protection, hence circumventing section 7 of the GPL. Sigh…
Savio
IANAL, but I think that the patent protection & royalty payments are being associated with the SUPPORT contracts, not with the GPL’d code. So, everyone using SLES gets the same patent protection, none. And Novell pays Microsoft zero royalties on every copy of SLES distributed.
But, if you’re a paying customer of a SLES support contract, then your subscription contract gives you patent protection because Microsoft won’t sue you (and hey, you have to keep the support subscription current to keep this level of protection). Next, Novell would pay Microsoft for each support subscription sold, in return for the “I will not sue” covenant from Microsoft.
At the very end of this story at CRN about the deal: http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailya...
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s chief legal counsel, says:
"Every customer who purchases a subscription for SUSE Linux Enterprise will get not only service and support from Novell but a patent covenant from Microsoft"
Again, IANAL, but it sounds like you have to buy (and keep current) a subscription to get the protection, hence circumventing section 7 of the GPL. Sigh…
Savio
2 years ago
in How many still use Yellow Pages? on Scobleizer
As foreshadowing of Yellow Pages fate...TV Guide's Canadaian operations announced:
"...the November 25, 2006 issue will be the last issue of TV Guide as a print publication. Instead, TV Guide will be produced as a Web magazine starting November 28th."
"...the November 25, 2006 issue will be the last issue of TV Guide as a print publication. Instead, TV Guide will be produced as a Web magazine starting November 28th."
2 years ago
in We’re playing the Web 2.0 drinking game tonight on Scobleizer
Geeze, and here I thought "Ontario, CA" was the one and only Ontario, CAnada. Sigh. :-)
2 years ago
in Is submitting things to Digg “work”? on Mathew's comments
Hi Mathew,
If we apply lessons from the open source world, then paying the top 1% of contributors is similar to hiring/paying the core developers on an open source project. And we all know that this is the route that mature open source projects follow.
I just blogged about this here. I think it comes down to the balance of capital invested vs. capital returned. For the top contributors, they expend a lot more capital then they receive. For the average contributor, they receive more capital then they expend. I'd suggest this is true for open source projects and for Netscape/Digg.
So, maybe Netscape isn't too far off.
If we apply lessons from the open source world, then paying the top 1% of contributors is similar to hiring/paying the core developers on an open source project. And we all know that this is the route that mature open source projects follow.
I just blogged about this here. I think it comes down to the balance of capital invested vs. capital returned. For the top contributors, they expend a lot more capital then they receive. For the average contributor, they receive more capital then they expend. I'd suggest this is true for open source projects and for Netscape/Digg.
So, maybe Netscape isn't too far off.
